Buckling and longterm dynamics of a nonlinear model for the extensible beam

  • Authors:
  • I. Bochicchio;E. Vuk

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universití di Salerno, Via Ponte don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano (SA), Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica, Universití di Brescia, Via Valotti 9, 25133 Brescia, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Mathematical and Computer Modelling: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This work is focused on the longtime behavior of a nonlinear evolution problem describing the vibrations of an extensible elastic homogeneous beam resting on a viscoelastic foundation with stiffness k0 and positive damping constant. Buckling of solutions occurs as the axial load exceeds the first critical value, @b"c, which turns out to increase piecewise-linearly with k. Under hinged boundary conditions and for a general axial load P, the existence of a global attractor, along with its characterization, is proved by exploiting a previous result on the extensible viscoelastic beam. As P@?@b"c, the stability of the straight position is shown for all values of k. But, unlike the case with null stiffness, the exponential decay of the related energy is proved if P